CHAPTER 572

An Act to amend and reenact § 8-182, as amended, of the Code of Virginia,
relating to lists of jurors.
[H 686]

Approved March 31, 1960

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 8-182, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
reenacted as follows: ,

8-182. The commissioners shall, as soon as may be after their
appointment, prepare lists of such of the inhabitants of their respective
counties or cities as are well qualified to serve as jurors and are not
excluded or exempt by §§ 8-174, 8-175 and 8-178. The whole number of
persons selected in any county or city shall not be less than one hundred
nor more than three hundred, except that:

(1) For the cities of Newport News and Norfolk the number shall not
exceed one thousand for each court,

(la) For the Hustings Court of the city of Richmond, * the Chancery
Court of the city of Richmond, and the Circuit Court of the city of Rich-
mond, the number shall not exceed one thousand; for the Hustings Court
of the city of Richmond, Part II, the number shall not be less than two
thousand nor more than five thousand; and for the Law and Equity Court
of the city of Richmond, the number shall not * be less than four thousand
nor more than ten thousand,

(2) For the Hustings Court of the city of Roanoke, the Circuit Court
of the city of Portsmouth, for the Court of Hustings for the city of Ports-
mouth and for all courts of the city of Alexandria the number shall not
exceed six hundred each,

(3) In the city of Lynchburg the number for the circuit court shall
not exceed five hundred and the number for the corporation court shall not
exceed one thousand,

(4) For each of the cities of Danville and Petersburg, and the coun-
ties of Pittsylvania, Henry and Princess Anne, the number shall not exceed
five hundred, and

(5) For any county having a population in excess of eighty-five thou-
sand inhabitants according to the last preceding United States census, the
number shall not exceed seven hundred fifty.

The same percentage of population shall be taken from each magis-
terial district or ward. The inhabitants of a city, however, which is situ-
ated in whole or in part within the bounds of a county shall not be placed
on the lists for such county, except in those cases in which the circuit
court of the county and the corporation court of the city have concurrent
jurisdiction of both civil and criminal cases arising within the territorial
limits of such county or city and in such cases the city shall be considered
as a magisterial district, or the equivalent of a magisterial district, of the
county for the purpose of the jury list. a

In any county having a density of population in excess of two thou-
sand per square mile, the commissioners shall not include on the jury lists
hereinabove provided for the name of any person who has been called for
jury duty at any time during the period of one year next preceding.

The commissioners shall advise in writing each woman whose name
has been selected to be placed upon the jury list of the fact that her name
has been selected for such purpose and that her name will be placed upon
such list unless she notifies the commissioners in writing within fifteen
days of the date of the notice sent by the commissioners that she does not
desire her name to be placed upon such list. The commissioners shall not
include on the jury lists hereinabove mentioned the name of any woman
who notifies the commissioners in writing within such fifteen day period
that she does not desire her name to be placed upon the jury list. No reply
in writing to the notice sent by the commissioners under this paragraph
in which a woman indicates her willingness to accept jury service shall
render her ineligible to serve on any jury under the provisions of § 8-176.